Marvel just dropped a trailer for the upcoming Disney Plus series Moon Knight and hooo boy it’s the most excited I’ve been for an MCU project in a while. For the past few years we’ve been getting rehashes or spin-offs of superheroes that have already appeared in a handful of films. The only brand-spankin’ new leads have been Shang-Chi and The Eternals (and The Eternals kind of sucked). So I’m excited to see a new masked face enter the fold.
Better yet, this trailer looks promising. I’m not too familiar with Moon Knight. I owned maybe two comics as a kid. All I remember is he was a mercenary who was gravely wounded and revived by an Egyptian moon god, who gave him a second shot at life as long as he devoted himself to saving people, not killing them. But his biggest draw, the attribute setting him apart from the stuffed and sprawling Marvel Universe, was that he had a dissociative identity disorder and multiple alter egos. The live-action series seems to be leaning heavily into the disorder. “I can’t tell the difference between life and dreams,” Oscar Isaac says in the trailer. This might mean we will get a whole bunch of hallucinations and mind-fuckery that will make Moon Knight fresh and thrilling: are the people, places and things we see in the show real? Or are they fabrications of Moon Knight’s mind? The unreliable main character perspective is an experiment Marvel has only dabbled in once with last year’s Wandavision — and they totally nailed it. Maybe Moon Knight will do it, too.
Shit could get downright strange. And an actor like Isaac is certainly capable of portraying the derangement the lead will require. Also, our resident movie buff Jacob tells me that a pair of guys named Benson and Moorhead are directing a few of the episodes, and they’ve made some seriously weird stuff including ‘The Endless’, a freaky-deaky flick about a UFO death cult. So yeah. All signs are coming up Weird.
The original series starts streaming on March 30 exclusively on Disney Plus.
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